Introduction

Breakout is a Clan-wide Run On. This competition will take place in a Clan-Run On thread of the #rp-lobby chat on the Brotherhood’s Discord server. Members are encouraged to write multiple posts throughout the event and to engage with the wider story as they see fit. The overarching goal is for the Clan to attempt to complete the objective given in the prompt. More information on your Clan’s Theater is available on the news page and related Wiki entries.

Each Clan will have access to one [IC] and one [OOC] thread for the Run On. All Run On posts must go in the [IC] thread; coordination and discussion about the Run On should take place in the [OOC] thread. The [OOC] thread will have a pinned post that contains character snapshots of all participating members. Snapshots can be added as members post. We will not be policing when snapshots are added but ask they be added when Consuls have time to do so at regular intervals. Please ask your Clan Summit for the Discord link to your Clan’s Run On.

In order to keep this event fair and fun, we have written a set of rules unique to this event. These rules are specifically designed to allow units flexibility. Because of this, units/members are expressly forbidden from asking members not to write.

Situation

The Children of Mortis have launched a surprise assault on the systems of the Seven Clans. The exact forces arrayed against each Clan differ based on how Clans chose to use the Children’s mysterious Force-sensitive crystals in the months leading up to the attack. In each system, the Children have landed inexplicable crystal asteroids on the surface. Enemy forces have emerged from the impact zones and begun to overwhelm the Clan’s local defenses, while their fleet keeps the Clan fleet at bay. Early reports suggest that the Children intend to forcibly “ascend” the populations of certain Clans’ systems, while in others they appear to be focused on retrieving stashes of crystals held in each Theater.

Your Clan must marshal its scattered forces to secure its Theater. The best hope for victory is to push into the crystal impact zone, which is unmapped and disrupts conventional means of battlefield communications, and find a way to capture or kill the enemy’s leaders on the ground. Exercise extreme caution when entering the impact zone; its potential effects on your Clan members and the enemy’s own abominations are unknown but should not be underestimated.

Theaters

Arcona

Enemy forces:

• Objective: Recovery of stored crystals
• Lightbringers: Top Tier Threat
• Truthwardens: Top Tier Threat
• Shadowseers: Top Tier Threat

Theater of War

Arcona’s primary theater is the island that houses Fort Blindshot.

Naga Sadow

Enemy forces:

• Objective: Conversion of population via ascension gas
• Lightbringers: Top Tier Threat
• Truthwardens: Top Tier Threat
• Shadowseers: Low Tier Threat

Theater of War

Naga Sadow’s primary theater is The Temple of Shadows and its surrounding area.

Odan-Urr

Enemy forces:

• Objective: Recovery of stored crystals
• Lightbringers: Top Tier Threat
• Truthwardens: Top Tier Threat
• Shadowseers: Top Tier Threat

Theater of War

Odan-Urr’s primary theater is The Jedi Praxeum and its surrounding area.

Plagueis

Enemy forces:

• Objective: Conversion of population via ascension
• Lightbringers: Top Tier Threat
• Truthwardens: Top Tier Threat
• Shadowseers: Top Tier Threat

Theater of War

Plagueis’ primary theater is Aliso City.

Scholae Palatinae

Enemy forces:

• Objective: Conversion of population via ascension
• Lightbringers: Mid Tier Threat
• Truthwardens: Mid Tier Threat
• Shadowseers: Top Tier Threat

Theater of War

Scholae Palatinae’s’ primary theater is Caelestis City.

Taldryan

Enemy forces:

• Objective: Conversion of population via ascension
• Lightbringers: Mid Tier Threat
• Truthwardens: Low Tier Threat
• Shadowseers: Top Tier Threat

Theater of War

Taldryan’s primary theater is Port Kasiya.

Vizsla

Enemy forces:

• Objective: Conversion of population via ascension
• Lightbringers: Low Tier Threat
• Truthwardens: Mid Tier Threat
• Shadowseers: Top Tier Threat

Theater of War

Vizsla’s primary theater is Yuanming.

Rubric and Rules

The Clan-Wide Run On will be graded following the Voice Fiction Rubric.

• For participation credit, members must post a minimum of at least 500 words in the [IC] Run On thread. Members who post less than 500 words total will be disqualified. Posts may be edited as per the Edit Rules below.
• Each member’s snapshot must be added to a pinned post in the [OOC] Run-On thread before the end of the event, but we will not pay any attention to loadouts in grading and realism will focus on general Star Wars/Brotherhood versus specifics Force powers and skills.
• Members may write their main and alternative characters/NPCs into the run-on. Snapshots must be provided, and the use of alts/NPCs must comply with all other rules of this competition.
  
• An author MAY send consecutive messages in order to complete one coherent “post.” Discord messages cannot exceed 2,000 characters, so multiple consecutive messages may be necessary for long posts – plan accordingly, and be sure to write your posts outside of Discord and copy/paste them into the application if you anticipate them being longer than a few hundred words. For reference, this bulleted list of rules is approximately 2,000 characters long.
• Authors anticipating the need for multiple messages can send placeholder messages that they later edit to fill in with sections of their post, to ensure that others do not interrupt a cohesive post.
• Posts may be edited or deleted at any time, but doing so may disrupt the flow of the Run On and negatively impact your Clan’s score.
  
• Each Clan Run-On must take place in its Theater. It does not need to remain in the Theater, but at the beginning of the event all members of the Clan are assumed to be 1) On the 'ground' in or at the Theater location, or 2) Orbiting above the theater in a way appropriate for a unit. Clans do not need to belabor arriving at a theater: members may address their arrival in their first post but a member’s second (and later) posts must engage with events in the Theater or they will not count as qualifying posts.
• Clans may freely interact with, and do as they please, to any members of the Children of Mortis. Note that anything done to these characters is not canon for the NPC or Brotherhood.